Award of Excellence
Visions and Master Plans

Port Lands Estuary

Team Leader/ Landscape Architecture: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Incorporated
Urban Design: Greenberg Consultants Incorporated
Landscape Architecture: Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg
Architecture: Behnisch Architects
River Hydrology: Limno-Tech
Regional Ecology: Applied Ecological Services, Incorporated
Microecology: Great Eastern Ecology, Incorporated
Climate Engineering: Transsolar
Bridge Engineering: RFR Engineering
Civil Engineering: Arup
Traffic and Transportation: TSH Associates
Client: WATERFRONToronto

Jury Comments
A long dream of local activists, this vision has until now existed only as a theoretical idea or environmental-assessment scenario. The Estuary scheme brings it tantalizingly close to reality, handling a beautifully naturalized new landscape with scrupulous urbanity.